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Contact: Lynn Brewer, [email protected]
With the election nearing, The Hotline has joined forces with SHOWTIME/ MTV Leisure Studios to launch an initiative to assist victims and survivors of home violence vote safely.
Right now, the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline and SHOWTIME/ MTV Leisure Studios launched their 2024 “Our Votes Matter” effort to make sure that victims and survivors of home violence have the data and sources they should absolutely take part within the upcoming election and keep protected whereas doing so. This 501c3 non-partisan effort goals to place important details about security into the fingers of survivors.
Over 10 million individuals expertise home violence yearly. And more and more, victims and survivors of home violence are feeling the consequences of legal guidelines and insurance policies that push their means to seek out security and safety additional out of attain – making their illustration in our democracy extremely necessary.
Home violence is all about energy and management over an intimate associate, and might deeply impression an individual’s means to completely interact civically. It isn’t unusual for abuse to incorporate interfering in an individual’s means to vote by blocking entry to the polls and/or coercing them into voting in a specific approach. Even when an abusive associate doesn’t immediately limit or intervene with a survivor’s means to vote, many survivors expertise boundaries to voting attributable to privateness considerations and the concern that voting would possibly compromise their security.
“We’re honored to be working with the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline to carry this extremely necessary message to survivors nationwide,” mentioned Brianna Cayo Cotter, SVP of Social Affect, SHOWTIME/ MTV Leisure Studios. “Each voice and each vote issues, and we hope this effort will empower extra survivors to make their voices heard on this election.”
The marketing campaign will likely be featured throughout MTV networks and social media and can hyperlink again to a useful resource web page the place survivors can study tackle confidentiality applications and different instruments they’ll use to vote safely. You may be taught extra by visiting www.MTV.com/OurVotesMatter
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The Nationwide Home Violence Hotline (The Hotline) established in 1996, serves these impacted by relationship abuse within the U.S. 24/7 with free and confidential dwell providers offered through telephone, chat, and textual content. The Hotline envisions a world the place all relationships are optimistic, wholesome, and free from violence.
In case you or somebody you realize is experiencing relationship abuse in any kind, assist is on the market — textual content START to 88788, name 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or chat on-line at TheHotline.org. You aren’t alone.
